Phys"o*clist, n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Physoclisti.
||Phys`o*clis"ti (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a bellows + &?; to
||close.] (Zoˆl.) An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no
||opening.
Phys"o*grade (?), n. [Gr. &?; a bellows + L. gradi to walk, go.]
(Zoˆl.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the
Physalia.
||Phy*soph"o*rÊ (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a bellows + &?; to bear.]
||(Zoˆl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or
||float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
Phy"so*pod (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Physopoda; a thrips.
||Phy*sop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a bellows + -poda.]
||(Zoˆl.) Same as Thysanoptera.
Phy`so*stig"mine (?), n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean
(the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white,
tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called
eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.
||Phy*sos"to*mi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a bellows + &?; mouth.]
||(Zoˆl.) An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with
||a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It
||includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.
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Phy*sos"to*mous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) (a) Having a duct to the air bladder.
(b) Pertaining to the Physostomi.
||Phy*tel"e*phas (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a plant + &?; the elephant;
||also, ivory.] (Bot.) A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds
||of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.
Phy*tiv"o*rous (?), a. [Phyto- + L. vorare to eat greedily.] Feeding on
plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals. Ray.
Phy"to- (?). [See Physic.] A combining form from Gr. fyto`n a plant;
as, phytochemistry, phytography.
Phy`to*chem"ic*al (?), a. Relating to phytochemistry. R. Hunt.
Phy"to*chem"is*try (?), n. [Phyto- + chemistry.] Chemistry in its
relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.
Phy*toch"i*my (?), n. [F. phytochimie; Gr. &?; a plant + F. chimie
chemistry.] Phytochemistry. [Obsoles.]
{ Phy`to*gen"e*sis (?), Phy*tog"e*ny (?), } n. [Phyto- + genesis, or
root of Gr. &?; to be born.] The doctrine of the generation of plants.
Phy`to*ge"o*graph"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to phytogeography.
Phy`to*ge*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Phyto- + geography.] The geographical
distribution of plants.
Phy`to*glyph"ic (?), a. Relating to phytoglyphy.
Phy*tog"ly*phy (?), n. [Phyto- + Gr. &?; to engrave.] See Nature
printing, under Nature.
Phy`to*graph"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. phytographique.] Of or pertaining to
phytography.
Phy*tog"ra*phy (?), n. [Phyto- + -graphy: cf. F. phytographie.] The
science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a
description of plants.
Phy"toid (?), a. [Phyto- + - oid.] Resembling a plant; plantlike.
||Phy`to*lac"ca (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; plant + It. lacca lac.]
||(Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries
||which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.
Phy"to*lite (?), n. [Phyto- + -lite: cf. F. phytolithe.] An old name
for a fossil plant.
Phy`to*li*thol"o*gist (?), n. One versed in phytolithology; a
paleobotanist.
Phy`to*li*thol"o*gy (?), n. [Phyto- + lithology.] The branch of
science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany,
sometimes paleophytology.
Phy`to*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. phytologique.] Of or pertaining to
phytology; botanical.
Phy*tol"o*gist (?), n. One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a
botanist. Evelyn.
Phy*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Phyto- + -logy: cf. F. phytologie.] The science
of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.
Sir T. Browne.
{ Phy"to*mer (?), Phy*tom"e*ron (?), } n. [NL. phytomeron, fr. Gr. &?;
plant + &?; share.] (Bot.) An organic element of a flowering plant; a
phyton.
||Phy"ton (?), n.; pl. Phytons (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; plant.] (Bot.)
||One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant,
||each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a
||phytomer.
Phy*ton"o*my (?), n. [Phyto- + Gr. &?; law: cf. F. phytonomie.] The
science of the origin and growth of plants.
Phy`to*pa*thol"o*gist (?), n. One skilled in diseases of plants.
Phy`to*pa*thol"o*gy (?), n. [Phyto- + pathology.] The science of
diseases to which plants are liable.
||Phy*toph"a*ga (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a plant + &?; to eat.]
||(Zoˆl.) A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.
Phy`to*phag"ic (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Phytophagous.
Phy*toph"a*gous (?), a. [Phyto- + Gr. &?; to eat.] (Zoˆl.) Feeding on
plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.
Phy*toph"a*gy (?), n. The eating of plants.
Phy`to*phys`i*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Phyto- + physiology.] Vegetable
physiology.
Phy*tot"o*mist (?), n. One versed in phytotomy.
Phy*tot"o*my (?), n. [Phyto- + Gr. &?; to cut.] The dissection of
plants; vegetable anatomy.
||Phy`to*zo*a"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Phytozoˆn.] (Zoˆl.) Same as
||Infusoria.
||Phy`to*zo"ˆn (?), n.; pl. Phytozoa (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; + &?; an
||animal.] (Zoˆl.) A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to
||zoˆphytes.
Phyz (?), n. See Phiz.
Pi (?), n. [See Pica, Pie magpie, service-book.] (Print.) A mass of
type confusedly mixed or unsorted. [Written also pie.]
Pi, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pieing (?).] (Print.)
To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and
disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also pie.]
Pi*aÁ"a*ba (?), n. See Piassava.
Pi"a*cle (?), n. [L. piaculum a propitiatory sacrifice, that which
requires expiation, a wicked action, fr. piare to appease, to expiate,
pius pious.] A heinous offense which requires expiation. [R.] Howell.
Pi*ac"u*lar (?), a. [L. piacularis: cf. F. piaculaire.] 1. Expiatory;
atoning. Sir G. C. Lewis.
2. Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. "Piacular
pollution." De Quincey.
Pi*ac`u*lar"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being piacular;
criminality; wickedness. De Quincey.
Pi*ac"u*lous (?), a. Same as Piacular.
Pi"al (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the pia mater.
||Pi"a ma"ter (?). [NL., fr. L. pia (fem. of pius tender, kind) + mater
||mother.] (Anat.) The delicate and highly vascular membrane
||immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
||Pian (?), n. [Pg. pian, epian, or. Sp. pian; from the native name in
||South America: cf. F. pian.] (Med.) The yaws. See Yaws.
Pi"a*net` (?), n. [Cf. Pie magpie.] (Zoˆl.) (a) The magpie. [Written
also pianate, and pyenate.] (b) The lesser woodpecker. [Obs.] Bailey.
Pi*a*nette" (?), n. [Dim. of piano.] (Mus.) A small piano; a pianino.
||Pi`a*ni"no (?), n. [It., dim. of piano, adj. See Piano.] (Mus.) A
||pianette, or small piano.
||Pi`a*nis"si*mo (?), a.[It., superl. of piano.] (Mus.) Very soft; -- a
||direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)
Pi*an"ist (?), n. [Cf. F. pianiste, It. pianista.] A performer, esp. a
skilled performer, on the piano.
||Pi*a"no (?), a. & adv. [It., even, smooth, soft, fr. L. planus even,
||level.] (Mus.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a
||certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev.
||p.)
{ Pi*an"o (?), Pi*an"o*for`te (?), } n. [It. piano soft (fr. L. planus
even, smooth; see Plain, a.) + It. forte strong, fr. L. fortis (see
Fort).] (Mus.) A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the
harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length,
thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.
Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square
piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Upright
piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.
Pi*an"o*graph (?), n. [Piano + -graph.] (Mus.) A form of melodiograph
applied to a piano.
Pi"a*pec (?), n. [Cf. Pie a magpie.] (Zoˆl.) A West African pie
(Ptilostomus Senegalensis).
Pi"a*rist (?), n. [L. pius pious.] (R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order
who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an
institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of
the 16th century. Addis & Arnold.
Pi*as"sa*va (?), n. [Pg. piasaba.] A fibrous product of two Brazilian
palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in
making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piaÁaba and piasaba.
Pi*as"ter (?), n. [F. piastre, It. piastra a thin plate of metal, a
dollar, LL. piastra, fr. L. emplastrum. See Plaster.] A silver coin of
Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster
(commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the
American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to
100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four
and a half cents.
Pi*as"tre (?), n. See Piaster.
Pi*a"tion (?), n. [L. piatio. See Piacle.] The act of making atonement;
expiation. [Obs.]
||Pi*at"ti (?), n. pl. [It., prop., plates.] (Mus.) Cymbals. [Written
||also pyatti.]
Pi*az"za (?), n.; pl. Piazzas (#). [It., place, square, market place,
L. platea street, courtyard. See Place.] An open square in a European
town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed
gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied
to a veranda.
We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas.
Jer. Taylor.
Pib"corn` (?), n. [W. pib pipe + corn horn.] (Mus.) A wind instrument
or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
Pi"broch (?), n. [Gael. piobaireachd pipe music, fr. piobair a piper,
fr. pioba pipe, bagpipe, from English. See Pipe, n.] A Highland air,
suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite
or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the
bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. Jamieson.
Pic (?), n. [Cf. F. pic.] A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to
28 inches.
Pi"ca (?), n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some
resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie magpie.] 1. (Zoˆl.)
The genus that includes the magpies.
2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as
chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.